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mojo wrote:I do not question your intentions are in the right place. I have just never seen a post instructing donations to a neteller address without an introduction by a moderator. It simply is not safe. I, for one, do not know you. That is not to say this is not a worthy cause! There does need to be a plan regarding monies as bonustreak commented on besides “stop” donations.
I can only speak for myself when I say that I will wait for a staff member to direct us further on this.
I too have huge credibility in this industry. I have nearly 1000 posts at PAW, have participated in CAP Spring Break, and can be found at the CAC in Las Vegas. I’m also a very good friend of Randy, whom I’m sure all of you here at CAP know quite well.
It looks like we won’t be needing any more donations though. We even received a $200 donation and a $100 donation so we should certainly be set for release.
mojo wrote:Good question bonustreak. If I am out of line I apologize but I am leary of donating anything with the endorsement of the Professor or Dominique. Just my opinion.The mere thought of adioking scamming members on CAP for $20 is laughable.
Okay anybody here who actually contributed, here is the finalized press release:
http://www.imaconlinepoker.com/articles/2006/poker-banned-in-america
I have to say though that I am somewhat disappointed in this community. From what I see only a few people made a contribution. Don’t you guys care about your jobs? I think that the questioning my credibility or what I am doing is holding many of you back from being part of this important event. Did you notice that none of the moderators seem to be doing anything at all?
Thanks to kdollar, star, and hoursurfer who made a contribution! Not sure if I’m forgetting anybody but thats what I belive I have for contributions. This will be a success and hopefully we’ll see it on CNN. Those who contributed are representing over 20,000 poker forum members!
This looks like a good release but I really would have liked to wait until tomorrow until lawyers have had a chance to react.
I bet there will be some interesting things to enclose from that.
Thank you Dom.
We just wanted to get this out as soon as possible, Monday is the big day for PR from what I understand.
I think it’s a good idea but a couple of things to add:
Firstly I’d wait for a few days: if it goes out this week, it will be lost in the mire of panic and all the PR from the firms stating their positions. Wait til the dust settles and it will have more impact IMO.
Secondly, isn’t it the “Port Security” Bill rather than the “Safe Port” Bill? Could be wrong.
Finally, I think the paragraph that starts “The bill was passed using methods that question American beliefs and rights.” should be rewritten personally as this doesn’t quite grab as well as something like “The Bill appears to contradict the Freedom Of Choice ethic that the USA is so proud of, with politicians effectively forcing a moral judgement on the citizens of America”
It’s a good PR by the way, but if it had a bit more of a “third party” investigative journalism slant, it may have more impact.
Cheers
Simmo!
Incidentally – I don’t know if this is useful (to you or anyone), but feel free to use it – or bits of it – if you think it is:
USA No Longer The Land Of The Free?
Politicians make moral decisions for US citizens
2nd October 2006All eyes were on the US this week as a small piece of legislation was surreptitiously tacked on to an altogether unrelated Bill infuriating US Civil Rights campaigners and niche groups in the process.
The “must pass” Safe Port Act (HR4954), dealing with the potential threat of terrorist activity at US ports, became the vehicle for a piece of anti-gambling legislation championed by Senator Frist and in itself an abridged version of the HR4411 Bill, recently debated in, and approved by the House Of Representatives, albeit with some opposition. The original HR4411 Bill was aimed at prohibiting gambling on the Internet by US citizens using a moral argument to back it up. It has met with strong opposition, not least because the Bill included exemptions for gambling on horse racing and state lotteries. The Bill’s detractors were quick to point out the obvious double-standard claiming the moral argument was designed to hide the real reasons for the legislation, notably that US money was being channeled away from the traditional US gambling vehicles – horse racing, lotteries and land-based casinos – into offshore companies.
As it became apparent that the Senate were not going to approve HR4411 prior to the mid-term break, Senator Frisk sought amended legislation which cut down the original proposal significantly, concentrating instead on preventing US financial institutions from funding gambling transactions. With time of the essence, the amendment was tacked onto the Port Security Bill on Friday (29th September 2006) which as expected was approved – albeit with some opposition to the anti-gambling amendment – and is now set to become law.
The move has angered many factions, both online and offline, who feel that this was an underhanded way to impose moral restrictions and thus appease the “Religious Right”, an important voting demographic in the US. It effectively takes the first step to outlawing online poker, among the most popular of American pastimes and is seen by detractors to be a major afront to American’s “Freedom Of Choice”. While proponents of anti-gambling legislation argue that it will stop a growing epidemic of gambling debt and have a positive bearing on society in general, the exemption of gambling on horse racing, state lotteries and in land based casinos does appear to question whether the Politicians really do have the interests of the public at heart.
It remains to be seen how effective this piece of legislation is on it’s own. Banks and financial institutions have been quick to point out that the resources required to police such legislation are likely to render the law untenable and indeed that identifying such transactions itself might largely be impossible. Nevertheless, the politicians have achieved their goal ahead of the mid-term elections and there is a suspicion that the gambling industry may well add to the confusion and uncertainty surrounding the “grey area” of US gambling in a rush to calm jittery shareholders.
Only time will tell.
I will be happy to contribute to future PRs.
I just need some time to actually asess the situation.
Thanks Simmo,
I could sure use a statement like that for my site, i’m not good at writing and needed something to get the players aware about what’s going on.
Thanks again
BettySimmo,
Did you write that whole thing up yourself or was it found someplace else? We can certainly issue more PRs, but some people are pulling back their contributions simply because their link wasn’t included (late donars). PRWeb actually has a “1 link per 100 words” policy that restricted us to only 11 or 12 links (which we still had to push for).
Dan
Good job.
I saw it on prweb a while ago and it is on eye on gambling which is mentioned in a yahoo news story and that site is buzzing!AdioKing wrote:Simmo,Did you write that whole thing up yourself or was it found someplace else? We can certainly issue more PRs, but some people are pulling back their contributions simply because their link wasn’t included (late donars). PRWeb actually has a “1 link per 100 words” policy that restricted us to only 11 or 12 links (which we still had to push for).
Dan
Why does there have to be any links (to portals) this isnt about getting publicity for oneself is it?
Its kind of late to organize at this point; the repukeacans have already tossed their cookies. What do you truly expect to come of your release?
AdioKing wrote:Simmo,Did you write that whole thing up yourself or was it found someplace else? We can certainly issue more PRs, but some people are pulling back their contributions simply because their link wasn’t included (late donars). PRWeb actually has a “1 link per 100 words” policy that restricted us to only 11 or 12 links (which we still had to push for).
Dan
I wrote it up this morning and just dumped it here mate. Not sent it anywhere else. Help yourself to all or any bits that are useful. Certainly don’t want links or anyhting in exchange
In case you haven’t had time to watch other news in the US, the Republicans are in serious disarray right now. They will likely lose Congress in November, unless Diebold can save them once again. I have to think that millions of poker players calling their republican congressmen and telling them they will lose their vote in November may still be able to stop this thing. Bush has to sign it. But if the Democrats win in November, they will start investigating impeachable offenses committed by this administration. Bush cannot lose Congress, or he’s toast. I would love nothing more than to see them go down for these things, but I would prefer to keep working in this industry. Poker could be the key to everything right now.
Yes, in the gambling realm… poker is “cool” while casinos are ‘the devil’… we really need to push poker more than gambling in general in my opinion… look at your conversion rates for crying out loud. A hell of a lot more poker players (at least from my experience and I promote both, actually more casinos than poker now).
